Questions tagged [httperf]

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. It does not provide a benchmark, but rather a framework to run benchmarks.

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Is it possible to log request results in httperf?

I'm using httperf for load testing. I have two HTTP endpoints to be tested. However, the second endpoint needs the result of the first one. That is, requests to the second endpoint need to pass a parameter which is generated by the first endpoint.…
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Httperf Configuration

I want to configure httperf in a way that it wait for page to load all attached files. In my case, there are 2 Javascript files which are attached with this page. What should its command in this case. I am trying with this command but could not…
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Increase httperf file descriptor size

I'm trying to use httperf to make some tests on a server application that I made. I installed httperf via apt-get: sudo apt-get install httperf When I run any sample, httperf returns a warning like this: httperf: warning: open file limit >…
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httperf for bechmarking web-servers

I am using httperf to benchmark web-servers. My configuration, i5 processor and 4GB RAM. How to stress this configuration to get accurate results...? I mean I have to put 100% load on this server(12.04 LTS server).
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Httperf: How to test REST api with endoded uri

I want to test my REST API which has a URI something like this: /myrestAPI/search?startTime=0&endTime=10&count=8&filters={"params": [{"field":"Topic","value":"Algorithms","type":"MATCH_EXACT"}]} How would I do that. The httperf reply status is…
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How to send an http session cookie using autobench

How do you set a session cookie in autobench so you can benchmark URLs that require session authentication?
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Difference in Autobench between num_conn and low_rate / high_rate?

I'm running a load test using Autobench and httperf, and am having trouble understanding the example they give on their site. The example uses the flags --low_rate 20 --high_rate 40 --rate_step 5 --num_call 10 --num_conn 5000 I get that this will…
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